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Five-stage model of brain-based learning instruction

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The article describes a five-stage instructional sequence attributed to Alsati (2004) and Marji (2010): preparation, acquisition and directed/indirect learning, elaboration, memory formation, and functional integration. Each stage has a defined role, from briefing the topic and forming neural relations through lecture and visual tools, to integrating the learner in class activities for "the deep comprehension", encoding what was learned, and finally using learning for enhancement and expansion through questioning. The researchers adopted these stages when planning and implementing the teaching of electrochemical cells and acids-bases interactions.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teachers must plan each stage explicitly; the memory formation stage is supported by factors such as "good nutrition, the adequate rest and link age to the prior learning"

Constraints

  • The stages are presented as a framework adopted by the researchers for chemistry topics; the article does not test the stages separately

Target Learners

  • 9th-grade chemistry students

Learning Goals

  • deep comprehension
  • memory formation and retrieval
  • integration and expansion of learning

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Key Sources

  • Kawthar shabatat & Mohammed Al-Tarawneh. (2016). The Impact of a Teaching-Learning Program Based on a Brain-Based Learning on the Achievement of the Female Students of 9th Grade in Chemistry. Higher Education Studies, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/hes.v6n2p162
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title Five-stage model of brain-based learning instruction
description The article describes a five-stage instructional sequence attributed to Alsati (2004) and Marji (2010): preparation, acquisition and directed/indirect learning, elaboration, memory formation, and functional integration.
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